Scotacus -- You've made a good point, and I agree: using CSS for the sake of using CSS has very little to do with standard-based design. I think, ALA understands it very well, otherwise they would never preface this article with the editorial note it has. The "classification" of a future material, however, might get somewhat tricky, unless they will come up with some sort of compliance-rating scale for a code... So far, we just have to live with a regular validation routine.
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In defense of my music analogy: music IS, perhaps, the most standardized artistic realm here is (starting from A = 440Hz, doesn't get any stricter, than that, does it? I am not even going to touch the scales and chords...); let me rephrase it:
If not for the plantation slaves, who introduced us to [initiative, or proprietary standards - quirks mode, if you wish] minor and major blues scales, which were later adopted and developed by jazz musicians [initial acceptance of a standard], we would never have neither rock-n-roll [style or method], nor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" [wider acceptance of a standard, neo-classic application]; without the fusion of classical music [standards - strict], jazz [standards - transitional, and quirks, a lot of them], and world folk [quirks mode, again, very ethnicity-specific], classic rock would never emerge as a style or method, and there would never be anything remotely resembling disco, techno, country, or rap in the form we know them now. No cotton - No Armstrong - No Primo - No Elvis - No Queen - No Outkast or Spears... (Hmm. I wonder, if that would be a good thing?)
Pop music [WWW] employs whatever works [styles, methods, and whatever standards, hacks and quirks there are], and easy to implement [$$$].
The point is: somebody has to start somewhere, in order to make things move.
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Will -- "People trying new things is what got all of this here in the first place". Exactly my thoughts. However: writing standard-complaint code has nothing to do with one's creativity, it's just a way of constructing your layout, and there are many, and many of them are legit.
"Playing a piano is not that hard - all you have to do is hit the right key at the right time..." -- Who said that?
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In defense of my music analogy: music IS, perhaps, the most standardized artistic realm here is (starting from A = 440Hz, doesn't get any stricter, than that, does it? I am not even going to touch the scales and chords...); let me rephrase it:
If not for the plantation slaves, who introduced us to [initiative, or proprietary standards - quirks mode, if you wish] minor and major blues scales, which were later adopted and developed by jazz musicians [initial acceptance of a standard], we would never have neither rock-n-roll [style or method], nor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" [wider acceptance of a standard, neo-classic application]; without the fusion of classical music [standards - strict], jazz [standards - transitional, and quirks, a lot of them], and world folk [quirks mode, again, very ethnicity-specific], classic rock would never emerge as a style or method, and there would never be anything remotely resembling disco, techno, country, or rap in the form we know them now. No cotton - No Armstrong - No Primo - No Elvis - No Queen - No Outkast or Spears... (Hmm. I wonder, if that would be a good thing?)
Pop music [WWW] employs whatever works [styles, methods, and whatever standards, hacks and quirks there are], and easy to implement [$$$].
The point is: somebody has to start somewhere, in order to make things move.
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Will -- "People trying new things is what got all of this here in the first place". Exactly my thoughts. However: writing standard-complaint code has nothing to do with one's creativity, it's just a way of constructing your layout, and there are many, and many of them are legit.
"Playing a piano is not that hard - all you have to do is hit the right key at the right time..." -- Who said that?